Re: [PATCH 1/3] accounting: task counters for disk/network

[Hirokazu Takahashi]

Hi Gerlof,

> >  This sort of accounting will presumably be needed by a disk bandwidth
> >  cgroup controller.  Perhaps the containers/cgroup people have plans of code
> >  already?
> >
> 
> Yes, there have been various cgroup block-I/O subsystems proposed. I
> know that at least the one posted by Hirokazu Takahashi
> <taka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> uses the same per-page cgroup pointer as the
> memory controller.

Yes, I'm working on this.

linux-2.6.25-rc series now have the memory controller in them, which
supports to get the cgroup from any pageframe. I made a block-I/O
controller on it experimentally.

If you use this controller with dm-ioband, which is an engine implemented
as a device mapper module to control the bandwidth of block I/Os,
you can also get "cgroup block I/O accounting" from it.

I guess you can enhance this controller to track the I/Os per process
if you really want to. But it will cause extra overhead which I think
you may not ignore.

Thanks,
Hirokazu Takahashi.



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